(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) ITTF: Prepare for August restart
China News Service, Beijing, May 2nd ITTF issued a statement on May 2 that the ITTF Executive Committee held a meeting recently to discuss the latest situation in response to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, which said it will continue to suspend all ITTF events And activities until the end of July 2020 and prepare for the restart of the August event.
The ITTF has previously set up a special working group to deal with the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, paying close attention to the global outbreak. At this meeting of the Executive Committee, ITTF made a series of decisions after listening to the full report of the working group. The important one is to continue to suspend all ITTF events and activities until the end of July this year, and will continue to pay close attention The global epidemic situation prepares for the restart of the August event.
At the same time, ITTF will cancel all remaining World Veterans Tour and Street Table Tennis events this year, and will make relevant decisions on the 2020 World Table Tennis Team Championships in June.
In addition, the Executive Committee also asked ITTF management to try to cut overall expenses, including restructuring human resources, to ease the financial situation in 2020. The ITTF Executive Committee will meet again on June 2.
Last month, the ITTF announced the latest world ranking. Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the ITTF tournament is in a state of suspension, and the ITTF therefore "frozen" the latest world ranking in April until the game restarts. Among them, Chinese players Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng ranked first in men's singles and women's singles. (Finish)